{"id":18927,"date":"2020-07-15T12:09:07","date_gmt":"2020-07-15T19:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/?p=18927"},"modified":"2020-07-29T10:34:45","modified_gmt":"2020-07-29T17:34:45","slug":"productivity-in-a-world-gone-mad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/2020\/07\/productivity-in-a-world-gone-mad\/","title":{"rendered":"Productivity in a world gone mad"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Even though I have NO excuse, considering my lifestyle before COVID-19 is not much different than during, I STILL had a long period of &#8230; the doldrums.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have had short spurts of non-doldrums, but until a week or 10 days ago &#8230; GAH.  And I have felt so guilty for the drag because:  see above &#8230; NO excuse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last year, at this time, I was in a work hiatus as a bid process resolved at my primary client.  A projected 30 day hiatus ended up as a 4.5 month hiatus, which strained my budget and retirement planning.  And yet, all of that time, and a list of things to do and learn and &#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I did do a lot of thinking, learning new skills &#8230; BUT, it also felt like I did not accomplish much.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fast forward to the last 3-4 weeks.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I got my groove back.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I reset my schedule.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And now, I am getting work done, enjoying time with Auggie and Emmett (including continuing teaching\/training) AND I have completed some items that have been on my &#8220;to do&#8221; list for over a year:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Blog updates<\/li><li>House and yard tasks<\/li><li>Misc maintenance items<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>YIKES!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m feeling pretty good at the moment.  I hate to even write that as I feel like in the next moment, all will regress.  Oh well. At THIS moment, while there are &#8220;to do&#8221; things, I am feeling good about my current schedule of:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Auggie and Emmett time<\/li><li>Me exercise and reflect time<\/li><li>WORK!<\/li><li>To do list time<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Things are getting done and the accomplishment of that is contributing to a wonderful sense of well being in a world gone mad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Onward.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"168\" height=\"304\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/ToDo.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18929\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/ToDo.jpg 168w, https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/ToDo-166x300.jpg 166w, https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/ToDo-83x150.jpg 83w, https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/ToDo-22x40.jpg 22w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 168px) 100vw, 168px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even though I have NO excuse, considering my lifestyle before COVID-19 is not much different than during, I STILL had a long period of &#8230; the doldrums. I have had short spurts of non-doldrums, but until a week or 10 days ago &#8230; GAH. And I have felt so guilty for the drag because: see [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-front-porch-musings"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18927"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18931,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18927\/revisions\/18931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beardogco.com\/theroadhome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}